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Sezen Arslan; George E. K. Whitehead – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study reports the design, implementation, and evaluation of a 3-day intensive short-term teacher education program that was specifically designed and implemented with the aims of fostering English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher-learners' ability to enact dialogic teaching in their teaching practices. Thirty pre-service English teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language)
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Kessler, Matt; Loewen, Shawn; Trego, Daniel – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This mixed-methods study investigates the use of synchronous video computer-mediated communication (SVCMC) in a U.S. university's Spanish-as-a-foreign-language curriculum. Using the SVCMC platform "TalkAbroad," the university's Spanish program required second-year students to participate in five, 30-minute, SVCMC conversations with…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Spenader, Allison J.; Wesely, Pamela M.; Glynn, Cassandra – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Content-based instruction (CBI) is a pedagogical approach used in the second/other language classroom that commits to addressing both language- and content-learning objectives. Scholars have found that, particularly in the planning stages, teachers struggle with achieving that balance (Donato, 2016; Lyster, 2007). This study examines world…
Descriptors: Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Macaro, Ernesto; Tian, Lili; Chu, Lingmin – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Although there is a wealth of research on the use of the first language (L1) in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, there is as yet very little research of this kind in classrooms where the prime pedagogical objective is to teach academic content through English as a second language (English medium instruction; EMI). It is important to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Xiaoyan – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The study examines whether there is any difference between the effects of a reading-writing integrated task and comprehensive corrective feedback (CF) on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing development, and whether the input language in the integrated task makes a difference in L2 writing development over time and the language…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Error Correction, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups
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Baecher, Laura; Farnsworth, Tim; Ediger, Anne – Language Teaching Research, 2014
The purpose of this research was to investigate the major patterns in content-based instruction (CBI) lesson plans among practicum teachers at the final stage of an MA TESOL program. One hundred and seven lesson plans were coded according to a typology developed to evaluate clarity and identify areas of potential difficulty in the design of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Objectives